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Steel knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50057
Display Title Steel knife
Descriptions
Object Description Steel knife
Inventory Description Knife, perforated bone handle, thin metal blade inserted into one end
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Mishagagmiut?
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Bristol Bay?
Materials Bone, Metal
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 2.4 x 1.1 cm (6 5/16 x 15/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50057, 127649 [crossed out] / Alaska / Nush? / Johnson
Provenance
Collector J. W. Johnson (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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